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Based on your estimation, I think it's crazy as in mind bottling that a clean skate can score 190 points. The best skate for me so far is Daisuke's 4CC Swan Lake one, that has been my benchmark for "near perfection" for a while @ 175 points. Seeing Chan come close to that mark with his performance on Saturday is just mind bottling me for too. But that's from a spectator point of view, of course you can always argue that I am comparing apples to oranges and it's unfair.
Daisuke's 4CC Swan Lake was his 2007-08 SP. After 2007 Worlds, CoP has gone some dreadful changes to fit for most less athletic skaters who were on the scene at the time. After 2010 Olympics, CoP has gone another significant changes. The maximum score one program could get then was different from the maximum score it could get now. Plus there were some changes in sequences, and spins too. So yes, you are definitely comparing two different program scores from practically two different CoP eras which were incomparable.
I know Takahashi wasn't clean...if he was, would he still beat a clean Chan?
I can say it with confidence: No, no one, as of now, could beat a clean Chan.
I agree. Javier has strong jumps! But after doing 2 quads the poor guy always lacks stamina in the latter half. He’s only 20 y.o. and hasn’t reached his prime yet. Do you think with aging he’ll accumulate more stamina?
If you ask me, I've never heard between age 20 and 25, age could play a role in making any difference in stamina. If you say a 30 year old has less stamina than a 20 year old, I would believe that, as we've observed in tennis. I'd think the training regime could make difference in Javier's case. However, Javier didn't strike me as being lack of stamina. I thought he slowed down his speed in footworks was due to weaker skating skills, not lack of stamina. But I could be wrong.
This I disagree. Do you mean Hanyu should win LP over Javier, but Javier should win the SP and thus should win overall? Did you look at their SP scores?
SP_____TES__PCS:
Javier: 42.19 39.07
Hanyu: 43.26 36.07
Javier lost to Hanyu on TES in both SP and LP, yet was still able to win the GPF event with a big 5.12-point margin on PCS. Hanyu should not have outscored Hanyu by 3 points on PCS in the SP. Hanyu’s skating skills are so much better than Javier’s.
I do. I'd call Hanyu's SP juniorish, even though I think his LP is more mature, maybe it's because of the music he used in LP. I particularly feel that Yuzuru's SP interpretation wasn't as good as Javier's in SP. I've used my old trick to check both Javier and Yuzuru's skating skills. I've concluded that Javier has better skating skills. It seemed that Javier was skating on a sleeky ice, but Yuzuru was skating on a bumpy ice. Javier's accelerating and decelerating was better too.
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